Ram Prasad Shrestha
Ram Prasad Shrestha is a co-mission partner with CMS, based in Kathmandu, Nepal, working to bring mission awareness to the churches, to provide training in evangelism, and to send trained missionaries throughout the Himalayan regions.
Ram Prasad Shrestha is the director of the Missions Commission of Nepal: a role which is jointly funded by CMS and the National Churches Fellowship of Nepal.
Ram is working to bring mission awareness to the churches, to provide training in evangelism, and to send trained missionaries throughout the Himalayan regions in partnership with local churches.
There was a time when missionaries to Asia came mostly from western countries. Today, there are more Christians in the global south than in the west. Many of these Christians, like Ram, are eager to become missionaries in their regions.
CMS believes it makes sense, financially and culturally, to support “South-to South” missionaries, which is why they paid for Ram’s training and theological studies. While it can cost around £25,000 a year to send a UK missionary to Asia, to support a local missionary can cost as little as £1,500 a year.
As he studied, Ram says God gave him a vision for sending Nepali missionaries to parts of Nepal that had never heard the name of Jesus.
Today Ram is director of the Missions Commission of Nepal, and is training and sending out approximately 10 missionaries a year to unreached areas of Nepal as well as to Bhutan, Malaysia and India. Within three years, each missionary is expected to plant at least one church.
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Last updated: 09/05/2008 14:09
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